“Meet the Artist”
Marvin Heiferman
December 7, 2023
474 Broadway, Kingston, NY
Doors at 5:30 pm. Talk at 6 pm
Please note: If RSVP’s are full on Eventbrite, you can join us on the live stream at 6pm here!
On Thursday, December 7, we welcome Marvin Heiferman to “Meet the Artist” night at CPW. Heiferman plans to present his project that has grown into an ongoing communal dialog about grieving. He says, “A few days after my husband Maurice Berger’s COVID-related death in March 2020 − when grief struck and words failed me − photography didn’t. I started making and posting images on Instagram daily that, in one way or another, visualized the very vulnerable state I was in. And to my surprise, people started to look at and comment about my photos in numbers I was unaccustomed to and, more importantly, with unexpected kindness and concern. Now, 1200 images later, it’s become an ongoing project that’s engaged thousands in a communal dialog about the experience, process of coming to grips with, and picturing of love and loss.” This event will be live-streamed on CPW’s Youtube Page at 6 pm.
Join us every Thursday evening at CPW, when we host illuminating talks with local and visiting artists. “Meet the Artist” allows the public to get to know new work, to hear about artistic processes, and to meet friends and other local artists. The evening takes place at CPW’s gallery at 474 Broadway in Kingston, NY. It is free and open to the public. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served. “Meet the Artist” is made possible by a generous grant from the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation.
Marvin Heiferman organizes exhibitions, online projects, and publications about photography and visual culture for institutions that have included the Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Institution, International Center of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S. 1 Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, and the New Museum. Earlier in his career and as a gallerist and artist representative, Heiferman worked closely with a wide range of artists and photographers including Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar, and Richard Prince. He has written for museums, galleries, monographs, blogs, and magazines including The New York Times, Gagosian Gallery, CNN, Artforum, Design Observer, Aperture, Art in America, and BOMB. The author of 15 books including Photography Changes Everything (2012), Heiferman’s recent publication, Seeing Science (2019) explores the intertwining of science, photography, and visual culture. New entries to Heiferman’s multiple social media projects – a personal Instagram project and, on Facebook, Threadsand Twitter, an ongoing inquiry into the ways photography transforms our lives – are uploaded daily.